[meteorite-list] Lost packages

[Martin Altmann]

You're happy enough to be able to send your meteorites insured.
Here at german normal post (now DHL) meteorites are excluded from any
insurance (like gems, pearls, amber) and with the general insurance on a
parcel of 500Euro or xtra safe with 25.000Euro, you'll get back the shipping
costs and around 10Euro per kilogram according to a post treaty from 50
years ago, thus not even sufficient to send some stinky Campos.
Fedex and UPS refuse to insure meteorites here.
One firm exist, where it's possible, somebody told me, I forgot the name,
but the problem is, that with their shipment costs one can't compete with
sellers from US and the clients would accuse you of a rip-off.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stan ." <laser_maniac at hotmail.com>
To: <meteoritehunter at comcast.net>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:04 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Lost packages


>
>
> >Let's get something strait now. Almost every customer in Europe wants
their
> >packages to declare "NO VALUE" "GIFT" "For scientific study only" etc, to
> >avoid customs. Except there is a problem with that. When you declare no
> >value, then there is no possible insurance value either.
>
>
> thats not true - at least for my post office.
>
> i usually put no customs value or a small amount - say 20$ - but ALWAYS
> insure a package for what it's worth - and have not had a prob;em
processing
> the one claim I had - nor have I had anyone calim that customs gave them a
> hard time even though the insured value is written ont he customs form -
in
> obvious conflict with the dclared value.
>
> basically the post office explained it to me that the customs declaration
> can be set at value of the transaction - but the insurance amount can be
for
> whatever you can document your loss at should the package go missing..
>
> so as a hypothetical example, if you sell your customer a several gram
> howardite slice @ 20$ - a killer deal because you want them to come back
> again and again - you can put 20$ ont he customs form for shipment to
> germany - but you can insure it for 200$ - the price some dude in germany
> recently bought the same material off of you for.
>
> a convinient loophole i'd say
>
>
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